Circe Society Artists
Art Shows
Join Circe Society for gallery art shows in historic downtown Madison, IN. We showcase work from local and regional artists, focusing on artwork created by women and femmes in the tri-state area (Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky). We specifically support new artists, but also appreciate the opportunity to connect with more established creators as well.
Look Again
Yul Butler
Closing Reception: Sunday, September 7, 2025 @ 3:00
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Yul Meade Butler, owner of yulshootz is an Indianapolis based photographer.
He specializes in dynamic thought provoking portraits with a documentary style that visually creates character studies of a subjects culture, mood, or experience.
His subjects tend to range in age but spans to special interests like his current project celebrating men and women 50 years and better through portraiture. The project will result in 24x36 black and white images printed on canvas accompanied with a short video.
Yul feels Alzheimer’s has extracted much from his family and as a result 10% of the proceeds will be donated to Alzheimer’s and Dementia Research.
Tender Armor
Lisa Cooreman
Opening June 27, 2025
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Soft materials and tactile processes are not passive symbols in my work—they are acts of resistance. Mending, stitching, binding, and layering become gestures of resilience and reclamation. These quiet actions transform the domestic sphere into a site of political critique, where tenderness and labor challenge systems that demand silence, invisibility, and erasure.
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My practice explores the ethics of care as both a social expectation and a mechanism of control—particularly for women, trans, and non-binary people. Through textiles, sculptural forms, and found domestic materials, I examine how care labor—emotional, physical, and institutional—is feminized, devalued, and often rendered invisible within dominant power structures.
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As a first-generation college graduate, single mother, and artist shaped by global experience, I stitch together personal and political narratives. The materials I use—frayed cloth, printed fabrics, and household tools—carry memory and metaphor. They speak to the quiet power within acts of care, and the ways tenderness can become armor in the face of pressure and precarity.
